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New Vinyl Munchy Ball for Fine Motor
I am excited that the vinyl Munchy Balls are in the shop and they have great resistance to work on fine motor skills and hand strengthening. The great thing about them being vinyl balls is that they...
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Messy Play and Fine Motor with Munchy Ball
Now that I have the new vinyl Munchy Balls, I was eager to use them in messy play. I started simple with water beads, which are the perfect size to feed to the Munchy Ball. It was fun to fill the...
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More Kinetic Sand Fun
I posted about Kinetic Sand last year after I saw it at the AOTA conference and fell in love with how fun it was (you can read that post here). I did not have any of my own at that time, and it was...
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Munchy Ball’s Adventures in Flight
Our Munchy Ball has been going on many adventures, and he is such a great toy to do so much different pretend play with. Recently, Munchy Ball wanted to go flying, which sounded like a great adventure...
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Swimming for Letters
I played with foam letters with the kids in school where we rolled the dice and then fed the letters to the Munchy Ball, and now that it is summer, we took the game to the pool so that we could swim...
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Taste Testing New Foods
When working with kids who are reluctant eaters, they often are afraid to even taste new foods. They may have had a negative experience at one point with a certain type or flavor of food, and so they...
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Fizzing Fine Motor Rocks
I have seen people playing with foaming dough, and decided it would be fun to see what would happen if Munchy Ball was foaming from the mouth. The foaming rock food is made simply by mixing baking soda...
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Fishing for letters
To work on a combination of skills, I made some fish with letters on them, added some pipe cleaner to make it metallic, and made some fishing poles out of pipe cleaner and magnets. Fishing is a great...
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Fine Motor Coordination Speed
We talk a lot about doing fine motor activities and there are a lot of them available. Another aspect of motor ability though is the speed of the motor response. I can see a student’s motor response...
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Munchy Ball Dress Up and New Colored Balls
It is fun to have a toy that is personalized and not the same as all of the others. We spent some time last weekend dressing up the Munchy Balls and making them unique. On some of them we used colored...
View ArticleMulti Position Writing Activity
This week I wanted to incorporate some targeted fine motor and hand strengthening in our sessions, and then follow up with some writing tasks. I used the foam letter squares that I made for the pool...
View ArticleMaking it Fun With Munchy Ball
I pick up a little girl from her classroom (we’ll call her Emily), so that I can do a fine motor evaluation, and this is the first time that she has met me. I tell her who I am and what we will be...
View ArticlePracticing Letters and Finger Strengthening
Resistance keeps your muscles strong, and the little muscles in the fingers need to work and get strong along with the rest of the muscles of your body. I love having kids get letters randomly in order...
View ArticlePurple Munchy Balls are Here
We just got purple Munchy Balls in stock. They are really cute and I know one specific youngster who will be so excited to hear the news (I haven’t told him because I want him to be surprised when he...
View ArticleFeed the Mouth Ball
I have seen this activity in several places, and decided to try it. It is a tennis ball with a mouth cut into it. You squeeze the ball to open the mouth, and feed objects into the mouth. First, you...
View ArticleMunchy Ball Motor Game
I have officially named my tennis ball head Munchy Ball, and I guess he is like a frog because he likes to eat little bugs. I made a little game to incorporate visual motor skills, motor planning, fine...
View ArticlePond Jump Fine Motor Game With Munchy Ball
I have been doing a lot with Munchy Ball and realized that he could easily be incorporated into games the same way that I use clothespins in games. Munchy Ball is a ball with eyes, and a mouth cut into...
View ArticleDifferent sets of Munchy Balls
I posted a few weeks ago about the games that I have made to play with Munchy Balls (tennis ball heads). Most people make their own balls, but many people would rather have them ready to go, so I have...
View ArticleFine Motor and Letters With Munchy Ball
I wanted to use the Munchy Ball in a new game with letters so that we could practice writing and build fine motor skills and hand strength at the same time. I started with just cutting foam squares...
View ArticleNew Vinyl Munchy Ball for Fine Motor
I am excited that the vinyl Munchy Balls are in the shop and they have great resistance to work on fine motor skills and hand strengthening. The great thing about them being vinyl balls is that they...
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